Halloween is cool!!! :w00t:
And for your information, the tradition is not even American. It originated in the Pre-Christian harvest rituals from Central Europe. Later on, it was converted to a Catholic holiday but it has existed for at least some 3,000 years (rough estimate- Iron Age).
The tradition was kind of ''adopted'' here (Portugal) by the younger ones, and it came to be known as
Noite das Bruxas (''Witches' Night'').
According to a very old tradition of ours, children would go from door to door and ask for candy, small sums of money, etc., on November 1st to celebrate the Catholic holiday. This was called
esmolinha or ''little handout''.
So we didn't really have much trouble converting one tradition to another
